DECENNIUM (decennia)

• DECENNIUM (noun)
  The noun DECENNIUM has 1 sense:

1. a period of 10 years

  Familiarity information: DECENNIUM used as a noun is very rare.

• DECENNIUM (noun)

Meaning:

A period of 10 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

decade; decennary; decennium

Hypernyms ("decennium" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "decennium"):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decennium"):

1900s (the decade from 1900 to 1909)

1760s (the decade from 1760 to 1769)

1970s; seventies (the decade from 1970 to 1979)

1870s (the decade from 1870 to 1879)

1770s (the decade from 1770 to 1779)

1980s; eighties (the decade from 1980 to 1989)

1880s; eighties (the decade from 1880 to 1889)

1780s (the decade from 1780 to 1789)

1990s; nineties (the decade from 1990 to 1999)

1890s; nineties (the decade from 1890 to 1899)

1790s (the decade from 1790 to 1799)

1860s (the decade from 1860 to 1869)

1960s; sixties (the decade from 1960 to 1969)

1530s (the decade from 1530 to 1539)

1920s; twenties (the decade from 1920 to 1929)

1820s (the decade from 1820 to 1829)

1930s; thirties (the decade from 1930 to 1939)

1830s (the decade from 1830 to 1839)

1940s; forties (the decade from 1940 to 1949)

1840s (the decade from 1840 to 1849)

1950s; fifties (the decade from 1950 to 1959)

1850s (the decade from 1850 to 1859)

1750s (the decade from 1750 to 1759)

Holonyms ("decennium" is a part of...):

century (a period of 100 years)